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Chris- I don't believe it will work for you. The Wii works wirelessly for everything, which it means it connects to the Internet using WiFi. Good luck though... let us know if you come up with anything.

Chris, are you saying that you can only have the laptop OR the desktop online at once? If not, how does the laptop get online then? I guess my question is, how aer the other devices on your network connected to each other?

My guess is that the USB AT&T device isn't compatible with just plug and play on the Wii. I remember back a while ago when I wanted get connectivity on an Xbox at a friend’s house who only had Wi-Fi (no Wi-Fi adapter available on the Xbox w/o buying an adapter only Ethernet), I had used my laptop as a gateway for the Ethernet connection.

Now I'm not sure if the Wii will support this either, but to do the same idea with it first you'll probably have to take Scott's suggestion of buying that USB to Ethernet Adapter meant for the Wii. Then plug the network cable from the Wii into a laptop or desktop. After that configure ICS (internet connection sharing) properly on your network adapters on the computer and if all goes well as it did for me on the Xbox you should have connectivity on your Wii through the computer. That might be a little cheaper than buying a router or some other means of porting that connection over. Let us know how it goes.

Oh I see, now I understand. Yes you will need something like Untangle's ReRouter as Craig had mentioned then to turn your AT&T card into a service sharable to your entire network. In that case you should be able to share it back out via the laptops WiFi, assuming that it has it, so that the Wii can pick it up from there.

Instead of going out and buying stuff, why not turn your laptop into an access point that the wii can use for internet access? Just setup an Adhoc network connection on your wireless card, plug the USB card into the laptop and share the internet connection. Setup the wii to connect to that network and it should work just fine.

No, I wasn't saying that he needed to buy a router or "ethernet converter" but assumed that he had something already connecting his laptop and desktop together. I didn't understand that his home was not networked at all. I thought that the Wii was the only component that he couldn't get talking to the others.

One thing you can try is the USB wifi dongle made to work with WII. I have one and it uses the WII Connect Software(The dongle might be called WII Connect). I got mine at game stop for like 20 bucks. I could be willing to part with it since I have my WII working on WiFi

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